1. On the nature of mountains it says in revelation, that, at first, the mountains have grown forth in eighteen years; and Alburz ever grew till the completion of eight hundred years; two hundred years up to the star station, two hundred years to the moon station, two hundred years to the sun station, and two hundred years to the endless light.

2. While the other mountains have grown out of Alburz, in number 2244 mountains, and are Hugar the lofty, Terak of Alburz, Chakad-i Daitik, and the Arezur ridge, the Ausindom mountain, Mount Aparsen which they say is the mountain of Pars, Mount Zarid also which is Mount Manush, Mount Airach, Mount Kaf, Mount Vadges, Mount Aushdashtar, Mount Arezur-bum, Mount Royishn-homand, Mount Padashkhvargar which is the greatest in Khvarih, the mountain which they call Chino, Mount Revand, Mount Darspet the Bakyir mountain, Mount Kabed-shikaft, Mount Siyak-muimand, Mount Vafar-homand, Mount Spendyad and Kondrasp, Mount Asnavand and Kondras, Mount Sichidav, a mountain among those which are in Kangdez, of which they say that they are a comfort and delight of the good creator, the smaller hills.

3. I will mention them also a second time; Alburz is around this earth and is connected with the sky.

4. The Terak of Alburz is that through which the stars, moon, and sun pass in, and through it they come back.

5. Hugar the lofty is that from which the water of Aredvivsur leaps down the height of a thousand men.

6. The Ausindom mountain is that which, being of ruby, of the substance of the sky, is in the midst of the wide-formed oceanj so that its water, which is from Hugar, pours down into it.

7. Chakad-i-Daitik is that of the middle of the world, the height of a hundred men, on which the Cinwad bridge stands; and they take account of the soul at that place.

8. The Arezur ridge of the Alburz mountain is a summit at the gate of hell, where they always hold the concourse of the demons.

9. This also is said, that, excepting Alburz, the Aparsen mountain is the greatest; the Aparsen mountain they call the mountain of Pars, and its beginning is in Sagastan and its end in Khujistan.

10. Mount Manush is great; the mountain on which Manushchihar was born.

11. The remaining mountains have chiefly grown from those; as it is said that the elevation of the districts had arisen most around those three mountains.

12. Mount Airach is in the middle from Hamadan to Khvarizem, and has grown from Mount Aparsen.

13. Mount Chino, which is on its east, on the frontier of Turkistan, is connected also with Aparsen.

14. Mount Kaf has grown from the same Mount Aparsen.

15. Mount Aushdashtar is in Sagastan.

16. Mount Arezhur is that which is in the direction of Arum.

17. The Padash-khvargar mountain is that which is in Taparistan and the side of Gilan.

18. The Revand mountain is in Khurasan, on which the Burzin fire was established; and its name Revand means this, that it is glorious.

19. The Vadges mountain is that which is on the frontier of the Vadgesians; that quarter is full of timber and full of trees.

20. The Bakyir mountain is that which Frasiyav of Tur used as a stronghold, and he made his residence within it; and in the days of Yim a myriad towns and cities were erected on its pleasant and prosperous territory.

21. Mount Kabed-shikaft is that in Pars, out of the same Mount Aparsen.

22. Mount Siyak-homand and Mount Vafar-homand, as far as their Kavul borders, have grown out of it towards the direction of Chino.

23. The Spendyad mountain is in the circuit of Revand.

24. The Kondrasp mountain, on the summit of which is Lake Sovbar, is in the district of Tus.

25. The Kondras mountain is in Airan-vej.

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